Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guise of a demon. Under the stars they become lovers, while under the sun they remain strangers, until the night creature persuades his lady to marry Alchonon. But with the public union come private agonies: the alchemic force disperses, leaving two ordinary people who plunge into insanity and sorrow...
Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station...
...novel, which retains the fastpaced, colorful style of his fourth book, "The World According to Garp," relates the antics of the Berry family, their dead dob Sorrow, and the guests in their peculiar hotel. Irving said he hopes to finish it in a year, but he added that he writes very slowly...
...scenes of a New England autumn in rain and in shine, the bubbliness of rambunctious young love, the sound of crickets at night and of a cello playing "Tis the Gift to be Simple" seduce us into forgetting for a moment the key-fumbling criticisms and to trust without sorrow that everything is just the way it looks...
...trying to be the last personal name in a local telephone book than Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra, who has brought up the rear of San Francisco's directory for eight of the past 15 years. Several years ago, when he was just plain Zachary Zzzra, Zzzzzzzzzra discovered to his sorrow that he had been zapped from last place by Zelda Zzzwramp, and so he added another z to his name. Last year, as Zzzzra. he was infuriated when he lost put to Vladimir Zzzzzzabakov. This year, tie outztripped all rivals by becoming Zzzzzzzzzra and once again won the last word...